Re: Scripting problems.

[Mike Ricketts]

On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Tom Gilbert wrote:

> Why not just
> cat abc def > def
> 
Not safe.  def could get truncated by the shell before cat tries to read
it.

> or
> cat def >> abc
> 
Doesn't achieve the desire result.

cat abc def | cat >def
is probably the easiest way of doing it

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